Alpha Chi Omega

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• Willie Desch Shafer (Xi, ‘53) receives Alumnae Appreciation Award at 2008 National Convention

Lincoln alumnae now have the opportunity to join the Alpha Chi Omega alumnae chapter, Kappa Kappa.  Katie worked hard over the summer to get the chapter reinstated…just in time for Convention!  If you’re a recent alumna, or you’ve been living in Lincoln for a long time, now is your chance to get involved.  Contact Katie at katelandb@gmail.com for more information. 

• Announcement of sad news from Alpha Chi Omega Headquarters:

On Friday, February 22, 2008, Janice Manning Crandall, former National President of Alpha Chi Omega passed away after a long battle with cancer. A 1971 initiate of the Omicron Chapter at Baker University, Jan’s alumnae service at the national level spans thirty years. Aside from serving as National President from 1996-2000, she also served as President of the Alpha Chi Omega National Housing Corporation, and trustee of the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation. She was an Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Medallion Recipient, National Extension Director, National Panhellenic Conference Delegate, National Rush Director, National Rush Visitor, Province President and a member of the local house corporation boards for both Omicron Chapter at Baker University and Phi Chapter at the University of Kansas.

Her commitment to Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity went beyond the positions listed above. She visited more collegiate chapters than she could count to provide recruitment training and support, to help undergraduate members work through challenges and to inspire them to recognize and reach their potential. Her work in creating opportunities to establish new Alpha Chi Omega collegiate chapters was masterful – and legendary. She encouraged the involvement of many Alpha Chi alumnae leading them to share their talents and treasures with their Alpha Chi Omega sisters.

The scope of Jan’s commitment went beyond Alpha Chi Omega and touched the interfraternal world as well. Her workshops and presentations at national interfraternity conferences, campus Greek Weeks and recruitment seminars touched undergraduates from many different fraternal organizations.

Jan was a proponent of the National Panhellenic Conference, composed of 26 national women’s social fraternities. The relationships that she built were of great value in the collaborative efforts of the NPC members. Jan is greatly respected by those who have worked with her in the conference.

In addition to the thousands of Alpha Chi Omega sisters whose lives she touched, Jan is survived by her college sweetheart and husband Doug Crandall, daughter Kate, an initiate of Phi Chapter, the University of Kansas, and twin daughters Beth and Sarah currently attending Baker University and the University of Arkansas, respectively.

She will be missed.